Table 1.

Questions (predictive and non-predictive of developmental delay^*) from the Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) Questionnaire used in the National Survey of Children’s Health, 2007, by age group and developmental domain

Domain	Question	Non-predictive	18 months–2 years old	3–4 years old	5 years old
Expressive language	Are you concerned about how he/she talks and makes speech sounds?		X	X	X
Receptive language	Are you concerned about how he/she understands what you say?		X	X	X
Gross motor	Are you concerned about how he/she uses his/her arms and legs?			X	X
Fine motor	Are you concerned about how he/she uses his/her hands and fingers to do things?				X
Preschool/school	Are you concerned about how he/she is learning pre-school or school skills?				X
skills
Behaviour	Are you concerned about how he/she behaves?	X
Social-emotional	Are you concerned about how he/she gets along with others?	X
Self-help	Are you concerned about how he/she is learning to do things for himself/herself?	X

Questions and scoring method are from the Parent’s Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) child development screening test. PEDS is protected by US and international copyright law. All rights are reserved by Frances Page Glascoe. Permission to use these items in NSCH has been granted by Dr Glascoe. Permission must be requested from the publisher (PO Box 23186, Washington, DC, 20026, http://www.forepath.org, support@forepath.org) before using these items for other purposes. Healthcare providers wishing to use PEDS in practice to assess risk status or to make decisions about developmental status for individual children must use the clinical version of the test, which can be obtained from Ellsworth and Vandermeer Press, LLC. The clinical version was not used for NSCH.

^*Questions deemed predictive for each age group help to identify children at probable and possible developmental delay in that age group. These questions were established during previous validation studies of PEDS.^{18 21}